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American Bedu received the following email and information from a reader in Jeddah. First I want to thank this reader for bringing the plight of the bear to my attention and second, I’d like to encourage American Bedu readers to sign the e-petition which will help get the bear placed into a better environment.

Please could I now ask you to help promote a petition that has been launched as part of a campaign to rescue a bear from a horrible pet shop in Jeddah. Activists have secured a new home for him in the UK at a wonderful centre, but the pet shop owner and CITES are not responding to requests to get the process moving. The bear has been held in the pet shop for many years and is fed a very poor diet of bread and kept in a concrete prison cell. People visit the shop and allow children to throw things at him and abuse him. The staff don’t have any training in how to care for animals – let alone a rare creature like this one. It is a terrible situation, which goes against all the teachings of the Koran as well as international animal welfare rules.

Many people will think that petitions don’t work – but a couple of years ago we used one as part of a SUCCESSFUL campaign to free a lynx from captivitiy in a pet shop.

me too of course and I am tying to share with my family and my friends.
I was in Jeddah last week. at Sawary mall ( ned, or nad street) there is a pet shop at the first floor. they sold mainly cats and small dogs.pets were so unhappy. the dog wanted to come with us. my kids were so sad to see those pets jailed in a so small boxes. why Haia don’t shut definitely those shops it’s haram in islam to treat animals in this way.

Most of them people working in the Haia, men as well as women, are former criminals that could find a job or weren’t accepted for one elsewhere.
Most of the are hypocrites and don’t deserve too represent Islam in any case. Animals couldn’t concern them in the slightest.